Efficiency of specialist rehabilitation in reducing dependency and costs of continuing care for adults with complex acquired brain injuries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine functional outcomes from a rehabilitation programme and to compare two methods for evaluating cost efficiency of rehabilitation in patients with severe complex disability.

Subjects and setting

Two hundred and ninety seven consecutive admissions to a specialist inpatient rehabilitation unit following severe acquired brain injury.

Methods

Retrospective analysis of routinely collected data, including the Functional Independence Measure (FIM), Barthel Index, and Northwick Park Dependency Score and Care Needs Assessment (NPDS/NPCNA), which provides a generic estimation of dependency, care hours. and weekly cost of continuing care in the community. Patients were analysed in three groups according to dependency on admission: "low" (NPDS<10 (n=83)); "med

SUBMITTER: Turner-Stokes L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2117444 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature